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This biggest news for me this weekend: I spent Sunday as a Snow Day, reading and trying to stay warm. The problem wasn’t the snow it was the ice over the snow. It’s already melting. Gotta a feeling this is gonna be a long winter.

A 90-year-old World War II veteran en route to a ceremony marking the 72nd anniversary of the attack at Pearl Harbor was booted from his flight to accommodate the weight of additional jet fuel needed for the trip.

According to Hawaii News Now, Ewalt “Walt” Shatz, a WWII veteran credited with shooting down a Japanese plane during the 1941 attack, was scheduled to take a United Airlines flight direct from Los Angeles to Honolulu on Wednesday, but was re-booked on an American Airlines flight leaving eight hours later that included a layover in Maui.

It seems that the preening condescension of Western billionaires’ “help” is not what Africans need. Like the Appalachian hillbillies in the 1960s, they don’t know they need help but, like most humans, they’ll take a freebie.